Owling, for those not in the know (until NBC reports on it later tonight), was just created by Reddit members yesterday and is a spin-off of the planking craze. In order to "owl" correctly, one must perch on one's haunches while staring off into space, taking the position of that nocturnal bird. Coincidentally, owling is just how I normally sit in chairs, and I can tell you it  tends to make people around me very uncomfortable. (Especially at work, since it looks like I am about to jump up and attack them.) Also, if you owl for too long, your legs will fall asleep and you will have terrible posture.

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In an unfortunately named blog post titled "Pegs and Holes," Adams notes that of late "Powerful men have been behaving badly, e.g. tweeting, raping, cheating, and being offensive to just about everyone in the entire world." Could this, you ask, possibly be the beginning of a critical line of new thinking about the abuse of power? Adams even boldly declares that "Obviously we shouldn't blame the victims." That's mighty big of you, sir!

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1. 19-year-old Estibalis Chavez from Mexico went on a 16-day hunger strike to get to the royal wedding:  And as a reward for this kind of behavior, a lobbyist is sending her the airfare to get to London. She still won't be able to attend the ceremony though. Should we be encouraging this?

2. "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams defends Gwyneth Paltrow from an African-American blogger who wrote about her privileged life at Huffington Post: Thanks Scott, Gwyneth is doing a fine job being completely unlikable without your help.

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Mr. Chaos has apparently long been a fan of Adams; Gawker noted Monday that early this year, he was posting on Reddit that "It's fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can't rule out the hypothesis that you're too dumb to understand what he's saying. And he's a certified genius." How fortunate for Adams there are people in the world not "too dumb" to understand the certified genius. It just happens that they're all Scott Adams. On Friday, the cartoonist admitted on MetaFilter that he and plannedchaos are one and the same.  My tie! It's curving upward in astonishment!

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Still, we wondered, just how big is the men's rights movement?

Michael Kimmel is a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University and author of such books as "Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990" and "Manhood in America: A Cultural History." We spoke to Kimmel today about the men's rights movement -- its origins, central tenets and current role in the debate over American gender roles.

So what's the background behind the men's rights movement?

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Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist for the New Yorker and contributor to CNN.com and other national publications. Her most recent book is "When Do They Serve the Wine?"

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Oh, Scott, how I envy your upper-body strength, which allows you to open a pickle jar lid with ease instead of using my method of banging it against the kitchen counter and then eating around the broken glass. Scott, when you get pregnant, I'm sure you won't let family obligations interfere with your drive to succeed the way women do. And don't worry about breast milk unless you're some kind of a fanatic who insists on breast milk; formula will be fine.

But I'm curious, Scott, about those really important issues you're saving yourself for, the ones you might neglect if you were to spend time answering any fool thing women come up with. Is our whining about earning less than men for the same job preventing you from trying to curtail the right-wing juggernaut from taking this country back to some fantasy perfect 1950s time? Because if you're working on that, I'm completely fine with earning only 80 cents for every dollar you do, I'll let you order first at any restaurant and I'll even open the door for you. But I can't promise not to lose my grip and slam it on your fingers.

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We're all a bunch of weasels, says cartoonist Scott Adams in his new book "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel." Those corporate bad boys like Enron CFO Andrew Fastow are just the top of the weasel pyramid, having perfected the slippery backstabbing that all of us exhibit in our smaller-scale, sniveling, pathetic ways.

Adams built a one-man diversified media empire on his pudgy geek Dilbert, extending his brand as far as a line of health-food burritos, by deploying cutting variations on the theme "bosses are idiots."

But in his newest "Dilbert" book, he expands his thesis to include, as he puts it, "not just management but, dare I say, humanity." Splicing cartoons and e-mails from disgruntled readers in with his own musings, Adams takes aim at everyone from people over 40 to nature lovers, men and women in relationships and, yes, co-workers, like those "techno-weasels" who relish telling their clueless bosses that whatever they want "can't be done," before suggesting that yet another meeting be convened to discuss "setting priorities."

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On a rerun of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), Adam escapes from the Initiative's headquarters and the soldier boys can do precious little about it. Dilbert (8:30 p.m., UPN) begins a two-parter where Dilbert is infected by a space virus. On a rerun of Angel (9 p.m., WB), our boy helps a woman whose doctor is stalking her in a most unusual manner. The new NBC sitcom M.Y.O.B. (9:30 p.m., NBC) -- actually, it's a sitcom that didn't make the cut this past fall or spring -- was executive produced by Don Roos, who did the Christina Ricci movie "The Opposite of Sex." Katharine Towne stars as a Ricci-esque runaway teen who goes to live with her no-nonsense aunt (Lauren Graham), who might be her birth mother. Thurgood sees a vision of a black Jesus and gets religion on The PJs (9:30 p.m., Fox).

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Ooh, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB) is good again. First we had professor Walsh as Mommy Frankenstein, now it's the two-part return of Faith (Eliza Dushku), the bad slayer who Buffy put in a coma last season. Faith is up and around now, and, man, is she pissed off. William Shatner is back as the Big Giant Head on 3rd Rock from the Sun (8 p.m., NBC). Nova (check local listings, PBS) continues "Secrets of Lost Empires" with a team of engineers, architects and historians attempting to re-create the Roman baths. Another Nova follows; this one is about the Lembas of southern Africa, who are convinced they're one of the lost tribes of Israel. On Will & Grace (9 p.m., NBC), Will and Jack take part in a protest outside "Today" after NBC cuts a gay kissing scene from a sitcom. On Angel (9 p.m., WB), Angel discovers that Kate's dad is messed up in a demonic plot, but Kate will hear none if it. Party of Five (9 p.m., Fox) has a Very Special Episode that depicts what life had been like for the Salinger sibs if their parents hadn't died. Jerry Seinfeld provides the voice of an arrogant supercomputer on Dilbert (9:30 p.m., UPN). Alas, even Seinfeld can't save "Dilbert" from obscurity; UPN is yanking the show off the air as of March 21. Frontline (check local times, PBS) presents "War in Europe, Part 1," an in-depth look at American involvement in the 1999 bombing campaign against the Serbs in Kosovo. Henry Simmons joins the cast of NYPD Blue (10 p.m., ABC) as Medavoy's new partner, former hate crimes detective Baldwin Jones.

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hack n. -- One who begins magazine articles with a dictionary definition.

OK, Andy Kaufman was a genius. No argument here. Still, I found myself cringing not long into "Man on the Moon" -- and not just at the sight of a gray, puffy Lorne Michaels playing his 30-year-old self. "How about 'The Chris Elliott Story'?" I snarled to a friend. "If only he'd get cancer."

While Kaufman has been resurrected in film, books and 12,000 magazines as a mad comedic savant, Elliott -- he of "Late Night with David Letterman" and "Get a Life" fame -- is, well, the voice of Dogbert, an ignominious fate for a performer who is every bit as innovative, bold and bafflingly odd. And funnier. (Let's face it: The reason "Moon" was made, apart from some altruistic effort to get Jeff Conaway off food stamps, is because cancer kills at the box office.) Like his comedic forefather, Elliott eschewed jokes in favor of joking around. He walked (nay, banana-danced upon) the line between comedy and performance art. And long before they recorded "Man on the Moon," R.E.M.'s "Stand" stood as the theme to "Get a Life." Elliott must be a genius; Michael Stipe says so.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB) reruns the season opener, in which Buffy is having trouble adjusting to college life. The talking toy Dilbert designs for a fast-food restaurant turns evil on Dilbert (8:30 p.m., UPN). On Party of Five (9 p.m., Fox), the Salingers make sacrifices in order to cover Griffin's hospital costs. Hey, he used to be family. Angel (9 p.m., WB) reruns the one where the man in (designer) black uncovers a demonic parasite that burrows into the bodies of lonely singles. Lily can't turn her back on the vulnerable Jake on Once and Again (10 p.m., ABC).

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The animated classic Frosty the Snowman (8 p.m., CBS), narrated by Jimmy Durante, has its 30th anniversary airing. It's followed by Frosty Returns (8:30 p.m., CBS), in which John Goodman has the voice of the roly-poly man of snow, who is threatened by an evil inventor's snow-removal spray. And after he melts, they transplant his brain into the body of a young, muscular ice stud. (That's a joke for "Now and Again" fans.) The week-long countdown of the 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made (8 p.m., MTV) marches on, as does the week-long I Love Lucy Marathon (9 p.m., Nickelodeon). America Undercover (10 p.m., HBO) profiles "Women Who Love Killers."

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Willow and Oz may be headed for a breakup on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), and all because Oz has the hots for a female werewolf. Dilbert has a near-death experience on a new episode of Dilbert (8:30 p.m., UPN). On Angel (9 p.m., WB), Angel's police detective pal Kate asks our moussed hero for help in busting a crime lord. Debbie Reynolds returns as Grace's mom on Will & Grace (9 p.m., NBC), and this time she's brought a man for Will. On Judging Amy (10 p.m., CBS), Amy must decide the fate of a 15-year-old who killed a 10-year-old in a drive-by shooting. Rick is preoccupied with work, but Lily absolutely must have his undivided attention -- yes, it's another self-absorbed week on Once and Again (10 p.m., ABC). The Real World (10 p.m., MTV) says aloha to Ruthie and the gang in the final episode of its Honolulu season.

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The four-part series Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth (check local times, PBS) brings us up close and personal with microbes.

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On Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), Buffy attends a beer blast where the brew is laced with a demonic little something that brings out drinkers' primal instincts. Must be Heineken. JAG (8 p.m., CBS) goes "X-File"-y with an episode in which the officer in charge of a psychic research project is charged with manslaughter when a subject commits suicide. Dilbert (8:30 p.m., UPN) has its season premiere. Dilbert revisits the mall where Dadbert abandoned him as a child, causing lifelong emotional trauma. Buck Henry and Jeri Ryan provide the guest voices. Cordelia moves into a new apartment, which happens to be haunted, on Angel (9 p.m., WB). Jeremy's Y2K readiness test is a disaster on Sports Night (9:30 p.m., ABC). On Judging Amy (10 p.m., CBS), Amy presides over a child custody dispute between white foster parents and a black biological grandparent. Also, Maxine and a colleague (guest Marlee Matlin) disagree in a case involving a hearing-impaired child. Grace and Zoe meet their dad's new girlfriend, and Rick and Karen are thrown into close quarters when they travel to Eli's basketball tournament on Once and Again (10 p.m., ABC).

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Adams recently released his 14th book, "The Joy of Work," which continues his tradition of mocking "induhviduals." A compilation of reader e-mails, comic strips, wry observations and suggested pranks, "The Joy of Work" is a guide to making the daily grind more fun. You, too, can bring humor and creativity to your job, while humiliating your inept coworkers and tedious bosses in the process!

Salon caught up with Adams on the press tour for "The Joy of Work" to talk about the evolving workplace, what Zippergate says about America -- and whether Dilbert is happy.

How has the workplace changed since you first started doing "Dilbert"? And how does your new book, "The Joy of Work," reflect that?

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